Water-elevator



(No Model.)

J.' J. HAMILTON. WATER ELEV-A'TOR.

Patented 001;.. 10,1882..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES J. HAMILTON, OF NEW CASTLE, INDIANA.

w'ATER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,923, dated October 10, 1882.

Application filed J une 9, 1882. (No modeL) To all whom It may concern Be it known that I, J AMES J. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New Castle, in the county of Henry and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Elevators, ot' which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a device for elevating water to the roofs or windows, to be used in or upon such buildings in case of tire; and the objects of my improvements are to provide certain devicesand combinations thereof for producing a machine which can easily and rapidly be transported from place to place, and which can readily be placed by the side of a burning building for the purpose of carrying water to its roof or to its upper chambers. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the device, it being supposed to be raised up with its upper end resting against a building, showing the frame-work, the carrying-wheels, the hoisting mechanism, the endless chain, the sheaves or pulleys over which they pass the water-buckets, and the method of attachingv them to chains; and Fig. 2 is a central sectional elevation, showing the parts above enumerated.

It is well known that up to the present time no adequate provision has been made for rapidly conveying to the roofs or upper windows of buildings a supply of water suicient to extin guish a fire therein in localities remote from towns or villages which are provided with fireengines or hydrants, and hence the object of my improved machine is to supply that want by providing a simple, cheap, and efficient device for that purpose which can be made available on farms and in small towns, and thus give increased protection to buildings thus situated.

In constructing machines of this character I provide any Vsuitable framework, A A', which may be made of wood or of iron, and of any form that will give it sufficient strength to enable it to receive and support the operating parts. I prefer, however, to make the frame of wood, and. of substantially the form shown, as when thus made it is comparatively light, and is well adapted for the reception of a shaft, B, the bearings of which are in its sides, as shown in Fig. l. Upon this shaft the carrying-wheels B B2 are. placed, which are so arranged that when it is desirable to move the machine it can readily be doneby turning the frame into such a position as to cause said wheels to rest upon the ground, when by taking hold of the opposite ends of the frame it can be moved to the side of the building against which it is to be placed, when by turning it into the position shown in the drawings it will remain rmly in such position and will be ready for use. In making provision for the elevation of water there is placed centrally between the outer walls of the frame another frame, C, which consists of two side pieces, C' and C2, which is held in its position with reference to the main frame by rods G3 and G4, which pass through it and said main frame at such a point as not to interfere with the ascending or descending buckets. Near the ends ot the frame C there'are placed in proper bearings shafts D D', each one of which carries two sheaves or wheels, D2, the peripheries of which are lhollowed out to adapt them for the reception of an endless chain, D3, which passes over them, and to which the arms D4, which carry the buckets D5, are attached, they, bein g so arranged upon the outer ends of these arms as to turn freely thereon, in order that whether they are ascending or descending they shall always remain with their open ends upward, so as to be ready to be filled with water at that point where they begin to rise, or

before or after they have reached that point.

In giving motion to the shaftD, and through it to the chains and buckets, there is placed upon the outer end of said shaft a spur-wheel, E, which is firmly secured thereto, which meshes with and is driven by a pinion, E', y

mounted on a shaft, E2, which revolves in boxes formed in or attached to the sides ot' frame A. Upon this shaft, at its ends, cranks E3 are placed, by the turning of which the requisite movement is imparted to the chains and buckets.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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In an implement for carrying water to tbe ets, substantially in the manner and for the roof or upper windows of buildings, the compurpose set forth. 1o bination of a frame having Wheels for moving In testimony whereof [affix my signature in it from place to place, a series of buckets for presence of two Witnesses.

containin g Waiter to be elevated, said buckets JAMES J. HAMILTON. being carried upon the ends of cross-bars at- Witnesses: Y tached to endless oh ains, and suitable meeban- W. R. WILSON,

ism for giving motion to said chains and buok- ASA HATCH. 

